Yep cyberpunk still perpetuates the idea that corporations are highly competent and innovators, which just doesn’t seem to be true in our current reality. The MBA/financial people have taken over and people that actually want to make cool stuff are no longer in control

Many of us would like this, but it’s dangerous or even illegal to get to some places by walking in large parts of America. And zoning laws make it really difficult to change.

As an American this is gross to me too

Honestly I assume most people with an American flag in their yard are racist trump fans these days

The recent trifold phone prototype by some Chinese company was the only version that interested me. It actually expanded to true tablet size and the proportions and thickness while folded matched the standard phone proportions. That actually felt useful and I could get rid of my tablet, so I wouldn’t mind the extra cost too much. The big issue obviously would be if it could have decent battery life, which I assume will be its critical flaw.

That’s the next executive’s problem. These executives will jump ship with their golden parachutes before any of that affects them.

Hell. Maybe only after self-driving cars become standard, you can monitor anyone driving for ‘fun’. Otherwise, in America driving isn’t really a privilege like they like to tell you, it’s something we’re all forced to do to merely survive (try getting a job without a car in suburban hell with no public transportation infrastructure).

Steam is untouchable until Gaben dies. Then God help us all.

There’s usually a hardware level power off function for when the device freezes and stuff. Can usually hold the power button for ~10 seconds will power off the device without needing to look at the screen

The US will quickly follow if the EU passes it I bet

I dunno, this feels like the whole ‘infinite growth’ problem of capitalism. Sure that’s been true so far, but it can’t continually result in more jobs forever. At some point they’ll just automate too much and it’ll be a tipping point.

For cuddles… right?

See this game documentary for more details: Cricket through the ages

It’s because AI is still stuck in the mimic phase. Once we figure out how to actually get it to learn in a structured manner, that’s the birth of the singularity. I don’t think current tech, even if taken to the extreme will get us there though. Needs to be something new, some different approach. Like how we went from faster and faster single core processes to multi core ones.

Not going to lie, needing a PlayStation account feels pretty unrelated to the actual game to me. Akin to complaining about how something shipped on Amazon instead of, you know the actual product.

Your difficulties with needing a PlayStation account, like shipping, is going to wildly vary depending on location.

Maybe pay people who’s only job it is is to talk to the researchers and write the proposal for them? Someone smart enough to get stuff explained to them, but with the communication skills to boil that down into something the money people can understand?

It’s a pretty common position in software engineering because programmers and business people are pretty bad at communicating with each other.

We are a long way off from true AI. You know how VR was a thing with the virtual boy and then the whole thing died for awhile until the oculus and vive revived the idea like 20 years later? And how VR is basically dead again because it’s still not quite there? AI is basically like that. We’ll get there eventually, but this current trend isn’t going to be enough to get us to true AI. It’ll go quiet again for awhile until there’s some new approach that revives the hype again. Maybe the next phase will do it, but the current AI approach is a dead end from a true AI perspective.

Also the new intern might not be able to do this either. There’s a surprisingly narrow age range where this skill set is expected

It was crazy taxi and no other game could use the mechanic. And telling you where to go is pretty darn important to a lot of games

I how you’re doing better, but also this sounds like the start to a fun romantic comedy or bro movie. Two strangers doing research on the best bridge to jump off of becoming unlikely friends.